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Rannibus was made an orphan after the age of eight
when his parents were killed on the way to a large city. Their family
hunted and traded animals skins for a living. Often Rannibus would go
with his father hunting for days living only off the land. They traveled
to large towns afterwards so they could sell their skinned goods.

One
such journey had them run into a group of marauding orcs called "The
Branded
Skull".
The
orcs
proceeded to slay the family and
take their
goods. It was custom for the tribe of orcs to leave one survivor from
the raid alive and brand their face with the clan insignia.
Rannibus was left to the wild with a dead family and a searing pain on
his right
cheek.

After being branded Rannibus ran away from the area
into the nearby forest with only the laughter of the
orcs chasing him. He ran for at least an hour getting lost within the deep
forest not realizing which way he came from. There he stayed the night.
In his attempt to find his way out he made a makeshift spear and hunted
some
small animal
for
food. While eating he was attacked by a forest bear, badly injured, and
barely escaped with his life. He was able to spear the bear once to get
away. Rannibus continued for a
while till
the
bleeding
of his
wounds
made him
fall unconscious.

An orc named Tyrkel from another group rival to "The
Branded Skull" found the boy injured and unconscious in the woods. Normally
this would be a simple matter of killing the human but Tyrkel recently
lost a son of his own. Quickly he surmised the fate of this boy tracing
where he came from, his small camp. Tyrkel believing this human was not
as weak as he appeared took him in as his own. Without Tyrkel's help
Rannibus would have died from his wounds.

At first Rannibus felt more like a slave than a son.
In Tyrkel's eyes it almost seemed so as the boy's life was owed to him,
and he reminded the boy of that often. Tyrkel was not an average orc,
he was more more advanced mentally, challenging even the smarter of humans
and elves. Tyrkel eventually brainwashed Rannibus to the the orc ways.

Eventually Rannibus accepted his new family and discovered
the kindness Tyrkel gave to him in an orc way. He accepted the orcs as
family. But as orcs go they were still evil and thus Rannibus learned
of their
ways.
His motives changed from survival, to escape, to revenge for the death
of his human family.

At the age of 18 Rannibus got his chance for revenge.
They had ran into a group of "Branded Skull" orcs in the middle of a
raid. Information was gathered, enemies killed, and vengeance was
just around the corner. Within a week Rannibus, with the help of his
father and his tribe, hunted down and destroyed
most of the rival
clan.

By now Rannibus knew why the orcs were they way they
were. Understood that strength meant power. But he also knew that they
were below his capabilities. His future lied elsewhere. He left one night
leaving only a note to his orc father to make his own fortunes.